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Prawn and Smoked Trout Salad

January 21, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

We’ve been eating a lot of seafood during very hot weather over the last few weeks. Yesterday I smoked a rainbow trout with 1/3 cup each of green tea, brown sugar and jasmine rice. I use an old wok lined with a few layers of alfoil and a circular wire rack to sit in it. I use a portable gas cooker and do it outside! I put some sea salt on the trout and smoked it for 45 minutes, then wrapped it in foil and put it in the fridge. I later warmed it in the oven.

I just bought some cooked prawns. The seafood sauce was simply blitzed roast capsicum. The seafood needed some lemon as well, which I realised I could have put in with the capsicum.

A mixture of wild rice and jasmine rice topped with a sliver of chilli, cubed with my rusty rice cuber.

Salad of daikon rasish, cucucmber, mango, spring onion, cherry tomato, coriander and basil.

The salad dressing was a leftover saucc from another seafood dish that we had a couple of days ago. It is from Kylie
Kwong’s “Recipes and Stories”. The original recipe includes Chinese mixed pickles which I didn’t have.

1 tbps ginger julienne
1 1/2 cups chicken stock (preferably Chinese)
1 1/2 tbsp white sugar
2 tbsp light soy sauce

Put the above into a saucepan, bring to a simmer and cook for 4-5 minutes.

Remove from heat and stir in 1/4 cup black vinegar.

That’s it!

Filed Under: Asian, Chinese, Salads, Seafood, Vegetarian

Summer Shellfish Salad

January 1, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

Here’s our Boxing Day lunch! A seafood salad with a Moroccan twist

Summer Shellfish Salad
 
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Prep time
30 mins
Total time
30 mins
 
Author: Craig Mitchell
Recipe type: Salad
Ingredients
  • 2 Moreton Bay bugs
  • Prawns
  • 
Cos lettuce leaves

  • Half a sweet potato
  • 1 punnet of Cherry tomatoes
  • 80 gms Feta cheese
  • Pine nuts - 1½ tbsp
  • ¼ Red capsicum,
  • Pomegranate seeds
 (about ¼ of a pomegranate)
  • Coriander leaves
  • Basil leaves
  • Parsley
  • Wasabi leaves
  • Saffron threads - ½ tsp

  • Saffron olive oil
 or Olive Oil
  • Cracked pepper
  • 
Lemon wedges
Instructions
  1. Cut bugs in half.
  2. Shell prawns.
  3. Peel and cut sweet potato into small cubes and parboiled for 5 minutes or until still crunchy
.
  4. Toast pine nuts ibn a dry frypan.
  5. Cute Feta into small cubes.
  6. Cut tomatoes in half.
  7. Cut capsicum into small irregular pieces.
  8. Chop herbs.
  9. Toast saffron threads in a dry frypan briefly.
  10. Assemble with salad leaves at the bottom. Save pomegranate seeds until towards the wend.
3.5.3251

 

I had some store-bought seafood cocktail sauce if people wanted it and most did, so next time I’ll make some.

This was an excellent, light , refreshing meal to follow on from the over-indulgence of Christmas Day.

Enjoyed with two fine South Australian wines – a Nepenthe Sauvignon Blanc and a Wirra Wirra Rosé. Bon Appetit!

Filed Under: Salads, Seafood, Vegetarian

Cooking on Salt

February 19, 2018 by admin Leave a Comment

I’ve just bought a salt block from Williams Sonoma after looking online at a few. It comes from Pakistan. You can use it as a platter, cool it for cheeses or desserts, or heat it and cook at the table.

I chose the Williams Sonoma one because of the size and the metal holder. For $42 it’s not unreasonable just as a fancy platter. But I want to cook with it!

I hunted around online to see how you use these and find some recipes. I’ve started a Pinterest salt block page here.

So how did we go?… 

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Filed Under: Seafood

Smoked Salmon Gnocchi

February 27, 2017 by admin Leave a Comment

Last night I made gnocchi, using the tried and tested Philip Johnson recipe.

The sauce was made from
– 2/3 cup white wine, reduced by 2/3
– 2/3 cup cream
– 1/2 cup grana padano or parmesan
– 1/3 cup feta cheese
– 1/4 cup mild blue cheese
– 2 egg yolks to thicken

Cherry tomatoes were halved. Chopped fresh garlic sautéed in oil, cherry tomatoes added, then a few tbsp of sherry vinegar and a couple of teaspoons of sugar.

Each plate had a couple of smoked rainbow trout pieces seared in a pan, then fresh basil on top and a slide of seared lemon.

Very happy with this. It’s going on my cafe menu.

Filed Under: Pasta, Seafood

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I now cook on Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Australia, having moved recently from the Adelaide Hills in South Australia. The region is similar to the Mediterranean, with temperate climate, fertile hills, nearby ocean, wonderful local vegetables, fruit, wine and meat produced locally. Meanwhile our Adelaide Hills garden has cherry, peach, almond, citrus, olive, pomegranate and fig trees which are suffering neglect! Cooking has been a growing passion for me, about connecting culture, creativity, community and spirit.

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